Sentence examples for display of cunning from inspiring English sources

In a final display of cunning and power, Federer served two aces and chipped a wicked drop shot to gain match point.

The result is that our prevailing emotion, as they are picked off one by one, veers away from grief toward a sniggering delight, and "Cloverfield" should really be approached as a fireworks display of cunning, spasmodic fun.

ALL tyrannies are virtuoso displays over many years of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

It is the mixture of high tragedy and low comedy that is so striking; Kenneth Tynan described a vocal display "of rich and immaculate cunning" in his early Falstaff, the "bellicose ecstasy" of his Macbeth at the Edinburgh festival in 1954.

The offences displayed, he said, "An extraordinary degree of cunning and a chilling desire on your part to manipulate and control the lives of others..

If "Biography" doesn't have the ingenious plotting of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "Front Page," it has a series of literate, well-observed cameos — the Hollywood star, the European composer, the aspiring senator, the macho mogul, the aggrieved fiancé — all of whom stir the pot and allow Froude to display her cunning and her compassion.

There are all sorts of cunning flourishes.

To bypass taxes is celebrated as a mark of cunning.

My sense of cunning was increasing.

He had a lot of cunning, too.

Why shouldn't that kind of cunning include couture?